Johannes Joseph Destrée

John Joseph Destrée ( born March 27, 1827 in Laeken / Brussels, † March 17, 1888 in The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter.

Life

John Joseph Destrée studied at the Design Academy in The Hague at Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove and his cousin Andreas Schelfhout and was a member of the Hague Künstlerbund Pulchri Studio. He exhibited his paintings in Holland, in France at the Paris Salon in 1882, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Hamburg and Vienna.

Destrée painted mostly landscapes and beach images, mainly subjects from the Dutch seaside resort of Scheveningen. The landscape paintings from the area around Potsdam he made probably by templates; a stay in Potsdam or Berlin is certainly undetectable. His works are exhibited, among others, in the city's museums in Amsterdam and The Hague.

Works (excerpt)

• View of the casino and the nacelle of Glienicke, 1847
• Look at Babelsberg Castle from the water side
• Overlooking the Brauhausberg at Potsdam
• View of the Glienicker shore with Casino, Frigate and Water Tower, 1847
• View of the ruins of the mountain at Sanssouci 1848
• Landscape with a moat
• Sunset at the pond
• Landscape with farmstead, figures and distance vision in Maastricht, 1858
• Dune of Scheveningen
• On the beach at sunset, 1873